substantial risk of broaching. Wave action may contribute to a broach initiated by wind gusts. Transport portal Glossary of nautical terms (disambiguation)...

on one piece of steel Broach (nautical), a sudden loss of control of a vessel caused either by wind action or wave action BROACH warhead, an advanced multi-stage...

Waves which approach a vessel at an angle between ahead and abeam Broach (nautical) – Abrupt, involuntary change in course Head sea – Waves approaching...

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Rules of Sailing Forces on sails Turtling (sailing) Angle of loll Broach (nautical) Death roll Drogue Limit of positive stability Metacentric height Naval...

result in legal liability for damages due to negligence. Angle of loll Broach (nautical) Capsizing Death roll Drogue Kayak roll keeling over Limit of positive...

actually be overboard of the hull, in a stiff wind the craft may want to broach. Running goose winged with a balloon staysail poled out to windward will...

dangerous and ultimately gear may break or it may round-up into the wind, broach or capsize. Any of these eventualities puts the safety of the crew and the...

feet (91 m) before her crew could stop her dive, then rose rapidly and broached. She again submerged, and a second pair of bombs exploded. One of them...

In a keel boat, a death roll is the act of broaching to windward, putting the spinnaker pole into the water and causing a crash-jibe of the boom and mainsail...

likely that the fire had been caused by members of the crew or passengers broaching cargo in the hold using a naked light, thus igniting the large quantity...

morning darkness of 13 April, Stingray's lookouts sighted the approach of a broaching torpedo. She made a sharp turn to port as the torpedo passed 100 feet...

sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what...

intelligence-gathering masts, and which reduced the risk of the submarine broaching the surface in heavy seas. The fairwater planes mounted on the sail could...

overwhelmed her small reserve of buoyancy. Whatever the cause, Rusalka obviously broached and sank with the loss of all 177 members of her crew. On 7 September 1902...

Western Australia for a flight of 724 nautical miles (1341 km) to Port Hedland. The aircraft crashed 28 nautical miles (52 km) short of its destination...

participation in the race. The boat Creighton's Naturally suffered a serious broach on leg 2, at about 3  am. Crew members Anthony (Tony) Philips and Bart van...

is a large salt pond commonly replenished by heavy wind-driven seas that broach the islet along its southwest side. It is covered with stunted palm trees...

envelope and the addition of a fin module, which had to be jettisoned after broach and before motor ignition, behind the boattail for stability during underwater...

recovering a vessel from a capsize is called righting. Capsize may result from broaching, knockdown, loss of stability due to cargo shifting or flooding, or in...

(3.3 ft) at low tide; the other does not normally broach the surface. They are located 11 nautical miles (20 km) north-northeast from Sarigan, in between...

between the ships of the trade in 1932, arriving in 103 days despite broaching in a gale. In 1933, the ship won in 83 days. Villiers sailed as a passenger...

(3,219 sq mi), with a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi); to the north, it broaches the Sea of Crete (Greek: Κρητικό Πέλαγος); to the south, the Libyan Sea...

moments later, observers on board noting beaches Red 2 and 3 littered with broached landing craft, two LCMs and four LCVPs from American Legion among them...

to provide Gipsy Moth IV with better directional stability to stop her broaching, but the modification did nothing to improve her stability. One day out...

Cadiz, Spain, the departure point for Magellan's earlier voyage. Triton broached, and John W. Weeks transferred the finished plaque to Triton for transport...

that a backwinded sail is more heel inducing than allowing a jibe. See broach, Chinese gybe and death roll. When sailing in high winds, a small boat or...

of roll caused the main fuel pump to fail and the ship experienced a broaching effect. The conditions led to the ship being nicknamed "Charles Chuckam"...

defeat of Custer in The Indians Won (1970). Beginning with The Probability Broach in 1980, L. Neil Smith wrote several novels that postulated the disintegration...

convenient surfaced operation in rough seas, and an increased possibility of "broaching" (inadvertent surfacing) at periscope depth in rough seas. Only Thresher...